Carmina Burana is a Scènova production. We own it and hold the performance rights.
- Premiere
- 2017
- On stage
- Ballet, chorus and orchestra – 120 artists
- Music
- Carl Orff
- Rights
- Scènova production
Choreography, staging, libretto, sets and costumes were all conceived by our artistic team. The first tour, in 2017, brought corps de ballet, chorus and orchestra together on stage – a heavy apparatus, and still the heart of the show.
Carl Orff's cantata is written to be heard at full force: O Fortuna opens and closes the evening, and everything in between belongs to the turning of the wheel. The choreography tells no story; it follows that motion.
What travels
The production tours in full: sets, costumes, chorus and orchestra. We do not play this piece in a reduced version, and the cities that host it have a stage and a pit sized accordingly.